BayCrest Akitas

08/21/2024

Akitas? Japanese Akitas?
I've recently had an increased amount of requests for Japanese Akitas. We have retired from the Breed.....PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE contact the Japanese Akita Club of America for guidance in assisting you in getting a quality well bred dog-the USA has recently had a large influx of Inferior Japanese Akitas imported here and being bred simply to make money.

06/27/2024

Just An Opinion here:
But Success within our Breed today has seemingly taken on a new meaning.
I was fortunate enough to get to know quite a few of our "foundation" breeders here in the US. There are so many people today who don't seem to realize just what the word "foundation" meant within our Breed.
Our Foundation Breeders worked with a small limited "gene pool" of dogs that originated in Japan, yet were also part of attempts to re-create a Breed that had been lost. Each of those Breeders studied hard to learn our standard and had their own interpretation of what the IDEAL dog was as described in our standard. They dealt with many serious health issues, serious structure faults and a whole lot of dogs that looked very different from each other. Every single one of those foundation breeders who had success within their Breeding program earned themselves a name within the Breed by improving each generation as they produced more and more dogs that adhered to our Breed Standard. Those Breeders were judged by their peers by their success in the whelping box not by Statistics or Ribbons and Placements they were earning in the show ring. Those Foundation Breeders KNEW it was THEIR job to Educate our AKC judges by only showing them Examples of our Breed that were improvements over previous generations. Those Breeders were NOT attempting to breed or produce dogs that looked like the dogs that were currently in the ring winning ribbons they were confident enough in the knowledge of our standard to strive to produce dogs that fit their own mental image of dogs that FIT our Standard well.

When talking with newer generations within our Breed today, most will likely tell you who their favorite all time dogs were or are, and seemingly are striving to reproduce dogs that look like them (with far too many of those newer breeders measuring by how successful those dogs are and were in the showring) To me that is and very well could be a step backwards in time.
WHY?
We should all be attempting to move forward in time with our Breed not “recreating successful dogs that exist or were in our past”

Year ago our foundation dogs were “parts” dogs, each with their own attributes to improving the dogs we had to work with. That is not and should not be the case today. Today we are dealing with dogs that are much healthier, with genetic testing to help alleviate some of our more serious issues, and dogs that should all be fitting our standard fairly well, those are the dogs we need to improve on. To breed to recreate dogs that have already existed can be huge step backwards for some.
Please keep in mind it is up to “all of US” to show our AKC judges the types of dogs that fit our standard, filling the ring with substandard dogs because that’s all you have to show (and you WANT to show) is not doing our breed any justice. Our AKC judges can only award what we show them.

06/22/2024

Just as an FYI, I've had a few people contact me lately to see if I knew anything about Bettye Krug of Krug's Akitas. Bettye's health has been failing and isn't that great, but she is still in her home and with us, with family taking care of her. Francis (her husband is also suffering pretty bad with health issues) and was in the hospital with serious health concerns as of a few weeks ago. May God Bless them all.

03/10/2024

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12/24/2023

11/28/2023

NEW CANINE VIRUS INFORMATION
PLEASE SHARE
There is a solution...to that deadly new treatment-resistant respiratory disease that is plaguing dogs around the country. A woman with a Golden Retriever Show Dog, had to make an emergency trip to a veterinary hospital when her dog came down with this infectious disease. A stranger online suggested that she try putting her dog on an antibacterial drug used to treat severe bacterial infections, and within hours, her Golden was well enough to go home!
Please print this out or notify your vet that: CHLORAMPHENICOL:
"Chloramphenicol is an antibiotic that can be used in dogs and cats to treat a variety of bacterial infections. It can be given orally in the form of a capsule, tablet, or liquid suspension. The dosage depends on the size, age, and condition of the animal, and the type and severity of the infection. Chloramphenicol is FDA-approved for use in dogs, but not in cats or horses. It can have a rare but serious health risk for humans who handle it."

11/20/2023

A Plea for Akita Breeders of today!
PLEASE stop and think before you place those Show Potentials, Show Quality, Full Registration Dogs.
Think long and hard before placing them especially in the First time Show Home or perhaps unseasoned show homes!
The people purchasing these dogs from you are relying on your experience, you expertise, and your opinion of that puppy.
In many of these cases you are not just placing one of their first or second dogs to show, you ARE many times, providing them with what they consider "Breeding Stock". (after all YOU deemed it show quality-why shouldn't they breed it?) Then they breed the dog you provided them with and THEY get to decided which of those puppies should go on full registration again-how in world can they do that when they can't even see what their own dog is lacking?
Watching the dogs appearing before our judges today, has them literally IMHO all over the place with many of these dogs seemingly (to me) to be mediocre at best.
The very BEST home for any puppy you produce is usually going to be that companion home. If that puppy isn't good enough for you to keep and continue to show, then why is it good enough for someone else?
We are supposed to be showing the best dogs in and from our kennels, and most judges are going to reward the dogs presented to them. How can we educate these judges on what we are striving to achieve if we continue to present them with mediocre dogs?
So please stop and think long and hard BEFORE you place that Full Registration dog in a new or unseasoned show home.

09/22/2023

AA JA ?
(pet peeve in the AA dogs of the USA)
I don’t care which you own or prefer.
It is up to “US” as competitors in the show ring to present “good” examples of our chosen breed. STOP blaming judges for their choices-MOST judges are going to select their winners from the dogs presented to them. The judges who have the courage to excuse for lack of merit or DQ dogs (doG Bless Them) are few and far between.
Look at the dogs that are being rewarded in the ring-compare the Best of Breed winners at a 1 or 2 point shows to the BOB winners at 5 point shows. Quite often you’ll see a HUGE difference how they conform to our standard and the areas they may be lacking in. Judges are often forced to default to what is right in front of them regardless of adherence to our standards. Most of the Breed winners at smaller shows might never be competition to the Breed winners at those 5 point shows.
ALL of our Akitas have been a recently “RE-created” Breed. This does NOT mean that an AA “can” not or “should” not possess BREED TYPE. It does not mean that AA should be bred for the largest head, the biggest stockiest dog in an attempt to make the difference between the AA and JA clearly apparent.
Both of these standards are very close in their description of the ideal dog. BOTH breeds should be clearly “Orientale” in their appearance and be represent their Japanese past.
NEITHER of these standards call for upright large pointy ears, close set ears, far set ears, neither of these standards call for short tight coat, straight rears, low tail sets, round eyes, little to no stop, etc. The more we show lacking dogs the more we are encouraging Judges to accept and reward them.
IMHO there are FAR too many people breeding Akitas to top producing dogs in an attempt to recreate that dog utilizing a dog who may be lacking in other areas which often only creates a line of dogs with “brand” new lacking issues.
The largest percent of accomplished breeders owning top dogs, know our standard well and have paid attention to it with in their own lines. Listen to them! Learn from them not what you read on google about breeding dogs and please stop trying to create little “clones” of our winningest dogs even those dogs possess areas that could probably withstand some tweaking.
Ok I feel better now